Modern Icelandic Plays: Eyvind of the Hills, The Hraun Farm

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Сторінка 2 Peasants, peasant women, and farm-hands. The action takes place in Iceland in
the middle of the eighteenth century. The story of the two principal characters is
founded on historical events. Halla's nature is moulded on a Danish woman's ...

Сторінка 28 Enter Jon and two other peasants, followed directly by two peasant women, Jon's
Wife, and her friend with two little daughters, eight and nine years old. Jon (
slightly intoxicated}. Now a bite of shark's meat would taste first-rate. You did n't ...

Сторінка 29 Peasant Woman. No, this is the first time. I promised them last spring that if they
were good and worked hard I would bring them, and they have surely earned it. It
's past belief how much they can do, no older than they are. Halla. Did you see ...

Сторінка 30 Eyvind of the Hills, The Hraun Farm Jóhann Sigurjónsson. (Halla comes back
and listens.) Second Peasant. I don't know about that, but those who flee to the
hills do it from need. If the laws were milder, I believe there would be no outlaws.

Сторінка 43 Enter Bj0rn and the District yudge, followed by a crowd of peasants and farm
hands. Others come in ... First Peasant. I never should have believed it. Kari. It is
the bailiff" to whom this letter was sent. May I be allowed to ask where it came
from?

Сторінка 71 - And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. Give us day by day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins ; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation ; but deliver us from evil.

Сторінка 132 - There has always been a peculiar fascination for the student of American history in that chapter of It which deals with the pre-Columbian discovery of this continent. ... To sweep away the cobwebs of error Is no small task, but Professor Hovgaard's book, with its painstaking following of the scientific method, should go • long way towards Its completion. . . . Professor Hovgaard has made the best complete exposition up to date of the voyages of the Norsemen to America.

Сторінка 131 - JR. 1914. xv +178 pages. Price $1.50 To the American-Scandinavian Foundation the English reading public is indebted for the first adequate attempt to introduce the versatile genius who built the foundation for drama in Denmark. It is not an attempt at "revival.

Сторінка 132 - In Strindberg's presentation of his hero, Olof becomes the prototype of all idealistic reformers, uncompromising at moments as Ibsen's Brand, but more living than he because more subtly studied in his moods of weakness as well as in his exultation of strength.

Сторінка 133 - The REVIEW has an admirable array of articles, and it is hoped will be well and widely received. The Scandinavian peoples have contributed of their best blood to the American nation, and we should draw from their resources of culture also. Chicago Tribune. For information regarding the above volumes, address the SECRETARY OF THE AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION...

Сторінка 98 - ... are never filled with snow ? Have you ever seen the snow falling fast enough to cover even the rims around them ? It's the earth blowing her breath against it. The earth sets traps for men ; the earth is a man-eater. JORUNN [to JAKOBINA]. You must not frighten the child. [Silence.] SVEINUNGI. Wasn't it you, Jakobina, who said that sometimes blood comes on the window-panes? It bodes ill, they say. JAKOBINA. Why do you ask ? There is no one here who has seen it, is there ? SVEINUNGI. Never mind...

Сторінка 131 - LIEDER. 1914. xxvii + 2O7 pages. Price $1.50 The life of Tegner was for the most part a happy one and this happiness is reflected in the optimism of his poetry. Boston Herald. III. Poems and Songs by Bjornstjerne Bjornson Translated from the Norwegian in the Original Meters, with an Introduction and Notes, by ARTHUR HUBBELL PALMER. 1915. xxii + 264 pages. Price $1.50 IV.